Connected Action

Harry Brignull, a User Experience Consultant, recently mentioned this on the Anthrodesign email list:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2GfOhFZkY8

This is one of the great works of empirical sociology: using a time lapse camera (and an analog clock) to study the flow of people over time through several spaces in New York City in the 1970s.
The associated books, City: Rediscovering the [...]

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The great sociologist Erving Goffman wrote a number of influential works about a domain of social life he called the “interaction order”, the realm of interactions between people.  Goffman studied how interactions are structured in the most common settings like how people pass by each other in hallways, manage eye contact, or show that they [...]

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